The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was brutally beaten to death outside Lahore's High Court for marrying him against her family's wishes vowed Wednesday he would fight for justice. Farzana Iqbal, 25, was attacked outside Lahore's grand high court building by more than two dozen brick-wielding assailants including her brother and father, who has been arrested, police said.
Three-months pregnant Iqbal had gone to testify in defence of her husband Muhammad Iqbal, who was accused by her relatives of kidnapping her and forcing her into the marriage.
Speaking to AFP by telephone from his home village of Jaranwala where had had gone to bury Farzana, Iqbal said: "We demand justice, we were being threatened since we got married."
The 45-year-old said he and his wife had survived a previous attack during the first hearing of the case on May 28.
"On Tuesday as we were going to court from our lawyer's office almost 30 people attacked us, including her father, brothers and cousins," he said.
The group of 10 or so people accompanying him were overwhelmed by the suddenness of the attack and fled in all directions, he said...
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